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give an account of kalighat paintings

Answer 1

Kalighat Paintings refer to the class of paintings and drawings on hand-made or more usually on machine-made paper produced by a group of artists called ‘Patuas’ in the neighbourhood of the famous Kali temple at Kalighat in between 19th and earlier 20th Century.
A N Sarkar & C Mackay remarked that “The Kalighat school of painting is perhaps the first school of painting in India that is truly modern as well as popular. With their bold simplifications, strong lines, vibrant colours and visual rhythm, these paintings have a surprising affinity to modern art”.
One of the earliest pieces of description on Kalighat paintings by Ajit Ghose is also worth to be mentioned here. He said: “The drawing is made with one long bold sweep of the brush in which not the faintest suspicion of even a momentary indecision, not the slightest tremor, can be detected. Often the line takes in the whole figure in such a way that it defies you to say where the artist’s brush first touched the paper or where it finished its work.

Answer 2

Kalighat paintings.

Explanation:

A school of modern art that emerged in the 19th century Calcutta, the capital city of the British government is known as the Kalighat painting. This type of painting was usually done on cloth or paper scrolls.

The name of this painting was given due to the thriving settlement of the cloth painters nearby the Kali temple at Kalighat in Kolkatta. Mythological characters were the theme of these paintings.

Over time, the theme evolves into civil life along with the secular and contemporary themes. The brushwork of the painting reveals the expertise of the artists.

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